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Alison Stone investigates how human existence is conditioned by the fact that it begins with birth. How does birth shape the way we are in the world, and the meaning of our lives? Stone brings natality into philosophical view, offering fascinating insights into the human condition.
List of contents
- Introduction: Towards a Philosophy of Being Born
- 1: Birth and Natality in Feminist Philosophy
- 2: History, Inheritance, and Vulnerability
- 3: Dependency, Relationality, Power, and Situatedness
- 4: The Radical Contingency of Being Born
- 5: Birth Anxieties
- 6: Natality and Mortality
- 7: Temporality, the Gift, and Being Born
About the author
Alison Stone is Professor of Philosophy at Lancaster University. She is the author of several books, including; Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel's Philosophy (SUNY 2004), Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (Cambridge 2006), An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy (Polity 2007), Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity (Routledge 2011) and The Value of Popular Music (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). She is also editor of The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Edinburgh 2011) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy (Routledge 2017).
Summary
Alison Stone investigates how human existence is conditioned by the fact that it begins with birth. How does birth shape the way we are in the world, and the meaning of our lives? Stone brings natality into philosophical view, offering fascinating insights into the human condition.
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Being Born is an excellent contribution to overcoming the philosophical neglect around being born. . . . This book is a rare gem because Stone examines being born within the framework of existential philosophy. . . . an excellent resource for anyone who is interested in philosophical reflections on birth. . . . Alison Stone provides valuable insights into how the meaningful structure of our existence is conditioned by being born. She also offers a fresh perspective on the philosophical concept of mortality as related to natality.
